Species Solandra capensis
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Named in honour of Daniel Carlsson Solander (1733-1782), a Swedish naturalist and apostle of Carl Linneaus. Solander was the first university educated scientist to set foot on Australia. Botanist Bay was named after him, and he did the first botanical collections on New Zealand, and undertook important collections on Australia when his ship was damaged on the Great Barrier Reef.
From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa